2003 Mercury Sable Front 4 Piece Steering & Drivetrain Kit TRQ PSA58465

Brought to you by 1AAuto.com your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet.

Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts, installed correctly that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.

In this video, we're going to show you front hub replacement on this 2001 Ford Taurus, same as any '96 to '07 Taurus. This is an involved replacement. Jack, jack stands, lots of different sockets, ratchets, and wrenches. You need a larger 30 mm socket, a tie rod puller, a big hammer, a pry bar, and a screwdriver. You'll probably need an air hammer because the steering knuckle is aluminum and tends to get seized. You'll see what I mean.

Start by using a screwdriver and pry off the little cap, and try not to fumble it like I do. If you have the benefit of air tools, the air ratchet's the best way. This is a 30 mm hub nut. You want to remove it with the air tools. If you don't have air tools, you want to have your car on the ground, wheels on the ground, and then you can remove this with hand tools. You're going to need a large breaker bar because it is on here tight. Now you're going to use a 19 mm socket to remove the wheel. Next, remove the cotter pin that holds the bolts for the tie rod end. It's 18 mm.

Now you're going to use a tie rod end and ball joint puller, or pusher. Just try and make sure it's lined up as straight as you can. When it pops, then it's disconnected. Penetrating oil on the upper stabilizer link bolt and the strut clamp bolt. Yes, you'll notice that the tie rod end is connected again, because I kind of shot it out of sequence. Low soak. There's a 10 mm bolt right here that you can remove that holds the brake line bracket. We'll kind of speed through that. Then you pull that brake line bracket out, and then you slide the bracket that has the ABS sensor up and pull that clip off.

The upper stabilizer bolt, you'll need an 18 mm wrench. Then you can see I've got a 10 mm wrench on there in case I need to hold that shaft still. It turns out that this actually comes apart without even having to hold that in place. Pull that link out and then I'm just putting that bolt back on it for safekeeping. Now the bolt that holds the lower end of the strut that's an 18 mm wrench that I'm going to use to hold it. This is a 21 mm. I've just taken and pulled it the rest of the way off by hand. I didn't accidently drop it actually.

Then a small hammer, or a hammer, and just drive that bolt out. You have to drive it all the way out. That bolt actually does hold onto the strut. Once you get it out, you can usually pull it out by hand. Then you need a good size hammer, and you just hit the top of the steering knuckle. If you look real close, you can basically see the disc sliding down off of the strut. We'll speed it up a little bit here.

The big red arrow, that is the axle shaft coming through the hub. Usually I give that a nice big rap and it loosens right up. That's the case it was actually loose on this Taurus. Usually just a nice big hammer, give it one big rap and it'll loosen it up.

Now I'm ready to separate the strut from the steering knuckle. I just kind of pull the wires out of the way and down, then the washer from the hub bolt actually just kind of fell down. Then move everything down. A really different angle here. I use a smaller pry bar or a big screwdriver and basically just pry your axle up out of the hub. I should be careful of that one line right there. That is the brake line. There is generally enough slack in it to do this. Pry it up and pop it out. Then you'll grab onto it with your hands and pull it up. This does require some strength and some force, so you can pull it up and out. Now underneath, on the business end of that axle, just put a pry bar in there, and it's just a snap ring that holds that in place. Just pry it right out.

You're going want to remove these two 12 mm bolts, and then these two 15 mm bolts. These two 12 mm will allow the disc caliper to come off, and then these 15 mm bolts will allow the bracket to come off, which then allows the rotor to come off.

To remove the hub, there's now three 15 mm bolts, here, here, and up here. Without the axle with the axle in you can get to these two okay, but it's very difficult to get to the one up here. Now what I'm doing here is I'm just going to fast motion. I'm going to remove the caliper. Then I'm going to use a wire tie to secure it up top. Now I'm going to use my 15 mm on the impact wrench, remove that bracket and also remove the three bolts that are holding the hub.
Because the steering knuckle is aluminum and the hub is cast iron, they have seized together. I imagine this is probably a common problem in any Taurus. What I'm actually using is an air hammer. You can see I'm wearing protective eyewear and everything. Basically, I'm just working like crazy to try and get that hub out of there. Probably on this vehicle, you're going to want to have access to the air hammer because it took me, I would say, probably a good ten minutes of banging away on it until I finally got it free.

What I've done is I've used a wire brush to try and get most of the corrosion out I can. I'm going to want to use just a little bit of Anti-Seize. Also, it just kind of lubricates stuff a little bit. I've got my bolts back in. I put my new hub in. Get one bolt started here. Get the second one started, and the third one. Now what I'm going to do is slowly tighten them up kind of evenly so it just basically pulls the hub evenly into the steering knuckle. You don't want to just tighten one up and then tighten the other ones. You want to just tighten them a few turns each at a time. Now with the torque wrench we're going to tighten these up to 70 foot pounds.

Because this is an HD video and there's a 15 minute time limit, if you want to see the rest of putting this all back together, just check out our second video for this series.

We hope this helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the internet and in person.